Posted on 05/18/2021 4:34:59 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
REYKJAVIK, Iceland - On a trip overshadowed by the crisis in the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday touted the Biden administration’s abrupt shift in its predecessor’s climate policies as he visited Iceland for talks with senior officials from the world’s Arctic nations.
In Reykjavik for a meeting of foreign ministers of the eight members of the Arctic Council, Blinken heralded President Joe Biden’s return to the Paris climate accord and determination to combat climate change.
Yet the worsening violence between Israel and the Palestinians hung over the discussions. A small group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators holding banners and flags protested outside the conference center where Blinken met Icelandic Foreign Minister Gudlaugur Thor Thordarson.
The Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the world and has been particularly hard hit by rising sea levels from melting sea ice and glaciers. Former U.S. President Donald Trump had alienated Arctic countries and others with his dismissal of the phenomenon and his withdrawal from the 2015 Paris agreement.
Trump’s former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, also stunned many in the environmental community at an Arctic Council meeting two years ago in Finland with a call for countries to embrace and harness climate change, particularly the opening of new sea lanes due to melting ice, for commercial gain.
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Did Wynken and Nod accompany him?
So Iceland has a PERFECT CHANCE to actually grow some food with Global Warming...and instead they decide to leave themselves wide open to STARVATION.
Idiots.
This is Biden’s opportunity to out-Carter, Carter. Will we see Biden acquiesce to Moscow and declare Arctic Circle Russian provenance like Carter throwing away Panama Canal?
Notice the AP headline of anti trump. Any chance Israel can blast them off the map here without warning.
It was 60 degrees in San Antonio yesterday. Oh no!!!!!
I normally don't click on AP articles, but I just had to check to see if this was an opinion piece or not. It's not. But opinion is presented as fact these days.
I can do that too. The author, Matthew Lee, is rumored to play with little boys.
What about the Medieval Warming Period, Blinken, when the temperature was six degrees higher and the polar ice cap completely melted?
Then it got cold again. Cyclical.
Melting sea ice doesn't change the sea level. Also, water from melting land glaciers spreads out quickly and doesn't "pile up" in the Arctic.
The polar ice cap (e.g. Greenland) melted somewhat in the MWP, but not completely, only a few percent.
One would surmise that Arctic Nations would welcome some warmer climates..
Standard practice to salt an article with unproven and unsubstantiated claims buttressing a political agenda, as if they are established facts. Just part of advancing the narrative.
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